Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/189870 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
Staff Report No. 829
Publisher: 
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York, NY
Abstract: 
We document the emergence of a disconnect between mortgage and Treasury interest rates in the summer of 2003. Following the end of the Federal Reserve's expansionary cycle in June 2003, mortgage rates failed to rise according to their historical relationship with Treasury yields, leading to significantly and persistently easier mortgage credit conditions. We uncover this phenomenon by analyzing a large data set with millions of loan-level observations, which allows us to control for the impact of varying loan, borrower, and geographic characteristics. These detailed data also reveal that delinquency rates started to rise for loans originated after mid-2003, exactly when mortgage rates disconnected from Treasury yields and credit became relatively cheaper.
Subjects: 
credit boom
housing boom
securitization
private label
subprime
JEL: 
E32
E44
G21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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